Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is something we hope the business community will get behind. For a $5 donation, we want employees to being able to wear jeans to work for a day.

Paul Goodman

This is one of the most difficult retail businesses to be successful at because with most businesses, you buy finished goods, put them on the shelf and sell them, ... But in the flower business you are buying raw product, manufacturing the goods and then selling them, That's where you lose your shirt is the manufacturing, or assembling of arrangements.

This is one of the more complex business transformations out there. It's very intense as far as the procedures, transfers and ownership changes that are involved in something like this. It is a legal structure change, as the company has stated, but that's only a small part of what the total implications are and members need to know that before they vote.

This is one of the many different tactics businesses are using to get in on the hot housing market. Lenders are grappling with what they can do to keep people coming to the market.

This is obviously a huge series for us. You need to take care of business at home in our conference because the road games are just such tough games to win.

This isn't going to be a sequel. This is a new environment for Bush to try that message with. Democrats should engage and don't look like they are rolling over here.

This isn't a transit bus that you use in the city. It's not a school bus.

This is the direction that the music business is going. The music and records we produce drive an artist's career. But our margins are under threat and our marketing costs are getting more expensive. We should share in the other revenue streams that are created.

This is the correct business decision given today's market dynamics.

This is the busiest we've been. Sometimes we've got courtrooms running from 8 in the morning until 7 at night.

This is part of our continuing process to improve bus service.

The vaccines business is a key growth driver.

Howard Baker

The welfare of the planet and its environment is paramount. But what we do, and do equally and evenhandedly, is more difficult to identify. I have no doubt in mind that President Bush is serious in his determination to reexamine the overall issue and that would include reexamining the language of the Kyoto treaty.

The week after Christmas in our business is virtually as good as the week before Christmas. In the last couple of years, the retail business between Christmas and Jan. 15 is much greater than in previous years because of the redemption of gift cards.

Stephen King

Wow. This makes grand central look like a bus stop in Buttfuck Nebraska.

The department store business has gone through enormous changes in the last 10 years and we aren't through yet. It's a retail format that doesn't have a great future in it. Consumers have decided traditional department stores aren't their favorite places to shop.

The distinction between the conduct of a business and the mere pursuit of a hobby is often a difficult distinction. However, the fact that you excel at a particular hobby should not be fatal for tax purposes.

Scott Adams

In the future, it will become increasingly obvious that your competitors are just as clueless as you are.

Scott Adams

Your business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids. This attraction is strongest just before an important meeting.

Ray Kroc

I believe in God, family, and McDonald's. And in the office, that order is reversed.

Ray Kroc

We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.

Ray Kroc

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Ratan Tata

I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right.

Thomas Jefferson

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Takafumi Horie

It's not that I'm not interested in politics, but rather, I think that the people who become politicians in Japan are not very dynamic. Honestly, I find business much more interesting than politics.

Tacitus

All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]

Ron Dennis

In difficult circumstances, teams either separate or come closer together, it's as simple as that

Stephen King

It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves.

Stephen King

The only leverage the manufacturer can apply to the retailer is his relationship with the consumer. And the main element in profit growth is going to have to lie in making his brand more valuable to the retailer, through its being more valuable to the consumer. And that means his brand must be unique, it must have no adequate direct substitutes - because it is in this, after all, that value lies.

Stephen King

Advertising tends to be most effective in jogging finally into action those people who are well-enough disposed towards a product, but have not yet got around to buying it.

Stephen King

One can often trace the sources of a brand personality-here it is the advertising, there the pack, somewhere else some physical element of the product. Of course, the personality is clearest and strongest when all the elements are consistent.

Stephen King

Tracking account planning is rather like counting a mixed batch of tropical fish. You think you see patterns, but they've all changed by the time you've finished counting.

Stephen Young

A successful business maximizes the present value of future earnings. The first requirement, therefore, of business success is sustainable profits. One-time winnings, in business as in casinos, are disappointing. We expect more from our investments than that.